Triangulum Log - Blue Veil System (Post 1) - Introduction

Vernier System - Post 2 (Third Planet and its moons)

Here we come across the system’s third planet, a Jupiter-Sized gas giant 1.18 Jupiter Masses orbiting the two suns at an average distance of 2.33 AU. Four massive moon’s all with atmospheres orbit’s the giant. The planet has a very faint ring system in orbit.

High Resolution Pic of the 3rd Planet

Note, the large red nebula in the background NGC 604, one of the largest know nebulas. The Vernier System is located 4,600 light years from the nebula. From here NGC 604 covers over 16 arc degrees of the sky (36 Full-moons), and shines with an average magnitude of -1.91.

The first moon is barren with a surface covered in craters and gray-colored regolith. It is 3.4 lunar masses, with a radius of 2,603.31 km. A thin sulfur dioxide atmosphere clings to the surface. The atmosphere has a very low surface pressure of 0.0001 atmosphere’s. The moon still appears to be volcanically active.

High Resolution Pic of the 1st moon

The second moon has 4 lunar masses with a radius of 2,956.36 kilometers. It’s surface is more geologically diverse with larger quantities of iron oxide. It is more Mars-like than Lunar-like. A sulfur dioxide atmosphere also covers the surface, but is thicker with a surface pressure of 0.017 atmospheres, or roughly just under 3 times thicker than the atmosphere of Mars.

High Resolution Pic of the 2nd moon

The third satellite is by far the largest, and is an Earth-sized moon with a mass of 0.56 Earth’s and a radius 93% that of Earth. It has a thick carbon dioxide-ammonia atmosphere, with a surface pressure 3.48 times that of Earth. Weather is very active on the surface, and the temperature averaging 230 K (-45 °F) supports liquid sulfur dioxide. Sulfur dioxide rain is also common on the surface. The satellite also appears to have a magnetic field.

High Resolution Pic of the 3rd moon

The fourth moon is a second largest with a mass of 0.07 times that of Earth and a radius of 3,274.23 kilometers. It also has a thin sulfur dioxide atmosphere, and sulfur dioxide ice-caps. The atmosphere is 0.017 atmosphere’s thick.

High Resolution Pic of the 4th moon

The System Tag for this system in Spaceengine is RS 1229-169-6-235375-219.

Picture of the Day - January 26, 2019

Barren and battered worlds.

Lunar Shadow

Picture of the Day - October 14, 2018

Small satellite casting its shadow across a gas giant.

Battered Desert

Picture of the day - November 5, 2018

A cratered desert world with a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere. Both heavily cratered combined with extensive surface modification from volcanism and other forms of geological activity. Evidence of a tectonic fault-line is present in the above image.

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Oculus System - Post 1 (Introduction)

We are now inside the giant NGC 604 Nebula. I’ve come across this wide binary system consisting of a F4 giant that is almost 16 times brighter than Earth’s sun and a smaller, but still bright G0V type star more than twice the brightness of Sol. The first worlds I am exploring are the ones orbiting the smaller or secondary of the two stars.

Descriptions of the planet’s to follow in the next post.

Space Engine System ID: RS 1229-171-5-23517-58

High Resolution Pics

Picture 1 - Inner-most Planet

Picture 2 - Surface

Picture 3 - Warm Ice-Giant

Picture 4 - System's fourth planet from a satellite

Picture 5 - Double occultation of two moons

Picture 6 - World with Ethane Oceans

Picture 7 - Setting distant 2nd sun

Oculus System - Post 2 (Inner-most Planet)

The inner-most planet is a Chthonian Planet, or the core remnant of a large Ice of Gas Giant that lost its atmosphere to the solar winds. The planet is a Super-Earth mass world of 8.4 Earth Masses and a radius of 1.56 Earth’s or 9,954 kilometers in radius. The planet is extremely dense, being made almost entirely out of compressed metals with a thin silicate crust. It has an average density of 12.1 g/cm³. The surface experiences a gravitational force of 3.44 g.

This world has a water-vapor atmosphere that generates a powerful greenhouse effect on the surface. Surface temperatures reach 1,623 °F, and sodium and potassium clouds circle the planet. Pressure on the surface is so extreme, the atmosphere exists as a super-critical fluid, with an atmospheric pressure 6,511 times that of Earth. The atmosphere reflects enough sunlight that the day-side has a bright-white color that drowns out the glowing clouds.

High Resolution Pictures

Picture 1 - Inner-Hell

Picture 2 - Tiny Moon

Picture 3 - Glowing Storms

Picture 4 - Steamy Atmosphere

The northern pole of a large moon orbiting the blue gas giant. The clouds like structures visible are two galaxies in the process of colliding.

Oculus System - Post 3 (Cratered Wasteland)

The system’s third planet is a nearly airless Mars-sized world, heavily cratered world. The planet orbits 1.19 AU from the sun, has a mass of just 8.6% that of Earth and roughly half of Earth’s diameter. A tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere clings to the surface with a surface press of just 1/100,000th that of Earth. Surface temperatures can reach the boiling point of water during the day, and fall nearly -300 °F at night.

High Resolution Pics

Picture 1 - Mercury-like planet

Picture 2 - Two small satellites

Picture 3 - A view from a moon

Picture 4 - Setting Sun.

Picture 5 - Broken Crater

Picture 6 - From just 10 km above the surface.

Picture 7 - The Surface

Stormy Giant

Picture of the Day - November 17, 2018

Large gas giant with a turbulent atmosphere and numerous cyclonic storm systems. The plant orbits a red dwarf giving the planet an orange tint.